Freelancer 2000-Release

And if you notice: the big rift between the trailers happens right as Microsoft bought Digital Anvil. They asked the devs to scrap the vast majority of their work so that they could release within the next year.

You have forgotten the concept Arts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzswvIL1awI

and the Orginal 7min Intro (notice, there are 2 different versions, the following is from the Bonus DVD and I belive its uniqe on Youtube, the other one was afaik released on the Internet for free)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IicV3p__lEc

To the Trailers:
The final Story of Freelancer was afair written in 2002, so that in 2001 the showed old stuff, maybe with a completly differnt storyline with other character and so on.

To the restored Intro:
The complet orginal has a lentgh of 11minutes and should be shown between the Rendered Intro and the FP7 scene.
It was removed, because it takes to long with it to get into the action.
IMO it were nice if they had shown it when you meet Sinclair on Spraque…

Edit: aww, I remember why I love this game

Anyone else notice the shadows in the 2001 E3 video? =[

cheeseontoast wrote:
Anyone else notice the shadows in the 2001 E3 video? =[[/quote]

Ya I did

Wow, those early videos are amazing, I wish we could have the sort of things that where showcased there. Does anyone know where the original script for freelancer is, before microsoft bought Digital Anvil? Looks really interesting.

Anyone else notice the shadows in the 2001 E3 video? =[ [/quote]

I did too, man i wish there was some legacy code for shadows left in the game, who knows, there might me

Ozed

FriendlyFire wrote:

cheeseontoast wrote:
Anyone else notice the shadows in the 2001 E3 video? =[[/quote]

Ya I did

Well, no trailer showcased shadows in space yet, so its safe to assume that those shadows were only on bases, in which case we didnt miss a lot. I mean, shadows in space, THAT would be cool

Would or will?

w0dk4 you big tease!

The shadows are still in SP, now they are very light grey circle under the chars…

Sad that the 2001 trailer looks better than the finaly game…that defender with additional engines looks uber cool. Leaving the forums and starting Cinema 4D

I remember having a discussion with one of the main coders regarding the 3D radar in the early version, he told me they could never get it to work properly which i think personally is a lame excuse. If ELITE got it working 25 years ago and Starlancer to name one a bit closer to home had it, why couldn’t the FL guys manage it? Shows how much FL was dumbed down by M$ really, turned a potentially awesome game into a good game imho

Can’t argue with that Gib, a little more time and it probably would have been released as DX9 with more eyecandy to boot. Just glad we have w0dk4 and co to show us the error of their ways.

I also just noticed the Liberty Defender had animated wings in the E3 2001 trailer, just after 2 mins in. Like a neat consertina effect of extended the wings. There’s a video of them working here. Has anyone here managed to get them working, or know how?

Yes, look in the modelling section, forget who but they got it working

Found it, looks like nobody ever actually bothered seeing it through and releasing anything though, too much trouble. Shame, would have been pretty trick.

There is actualy a tut for this by w0dk4:
http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2031&forum=26

And some mods have/will have this feature. (FW:ToW and Procyon for example)

I see the tutorials etc, I just assumed that if someone had restored the animations on the standard FL ships they would have released them in a pack or something.

Of the vanilla ships, only Crusader and Valkyrie come with animated wings. In SP, with Console, type anim wings to see them.

There are other ships not used by players that have animation as well, the CSV has a working cargo bay and the prison liner also has working docking bays which you have to add the animation code back in. I use them as prison liners so grabbed the animation code from the luxury liner and works great.

Hmm… So what we played and modify now is actually Freelancer 2, while Freelancer 1 was never released! Fascinating…